The recently dated Splinter Cell: Conviction has been confirmed for a while now to be an Xbox 360 exclusive. While a period of "timed exclusivity" where the game would later release on the PS3 seemed possible, it now appears as though that may never happen.
"There's going to be a really strong partnership with Microsoft," said Ubisoft producer Alexandre Parizeau to CVG. "Obviously we'll do everything that we can do to make sure that the experience is indebted with whatever the Xbox has to offer. I want to make sure that when the game hits the shelves the disc will 'meld' with your Xbox 360 - it's meant for the Xbox 360 and it will show."
"It's really cool to be able to focus technology on one platform, to be able to really exploit it to the maximum of its capacity," he continued. "We've been working with Microsoft for a while now. We've been working with their engineers - we've had super good feedback from them on all sorts of different things. It's been a really good partnership with them. They're backing us up. There's no question that they're supporting the game to its fullest."
It sounds like there was some sort of agreement signed between Ubisoft and Microsoft that, in the least, probably involved a promise of some cross promotion in exchange for exclusivity. It makes all the more sense since the Splinter Cell series has always performed well on the Xbox platform.
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September 25, 2009
Hopefully this means the framerate will get better than it looked in Tokyo